QUEEN MARY LEADS FASHION REVIVAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 115, 5 August 1927, Page 4

QUEEN MARY LEADS FASHION REVIVAL

FEATHER BOAS RETURN TO FAVOUR Fashion is following a very feathery way at Home, and Ascot week set a final seal of popularity upon such modes. Since that event there has been a big demand for all sorts of feathered dress details, especially for j big ostrich boas and shoulder wraps. j Queen Mary is leading the way in j the revival of the feather boa. She i has several of these, and usually wears ‘ one matching the dress and hat she : is wearing. The new boas are all manner of shades, chiefly pastel and sweet I pea colourings. Mauve, blue and pink ostrich feather boas are very much in favour this season, and the coloured boa has entirely displaced the black, white and grey boas of 20 years ago. Sometimes a feather muff is carried for decoration with the boa, and in a few cases the feather influence affects other articles of milady’s attire. A number of summer frocks of filmy stuffs like flowered chiffon and georgette are trimmed with feathery trails, and parasols composed wholly or partly of soft feathers are also very popular. The very newest use for ostrich feathers is to have silk stockings delicately fringed with matching fronds up the back seam. One of the loveliest frocks I have seen resembled a sort of shaded wallpaper in design. Of nattier blue chiffon, printed with hollyhocks in blue red, white, pink and yellow, it was a veritable picture. The long corsage had loose picture sleeves, and was finished with the daintiest sash imag•ll ln flutt ering taffetas ribbons picking up the hollyhock colours. The skirt fluted and swirled with piquant grace, and a notable finishing touch was the transparent cape of the same material.